The House of Novello: "Practice and Policy of a Victorian by VictoriaL. Cooper

By VictoriaL. Cooper

by way of the mid-nineteenth century track publishing used to be now not the provenance of shopkeepers, tool makers or person students, yet a agency undertaken via a brand new breed of Victorian entrepreneur. such have been Vincent Novello and his son Alfred, whose song publishing condo loved major progress among 1829 and 1866. Victoria Cooper builds up an image of Novello in this interval and the socio-economic and cultural weather that encouraged the company's enterprise judgements. having a look intimately at a few of the versions Novello released, she analyzes the enhancing variety of the enterprise and the way this used to be dictated through Novello's major viewers of novice musicians and choral societies. Scrutiny of Novello's stockbook shows the monetary fortunes of those variants, whereas correspondence among the company and composers reminiscent of Mendelssohn unearths how Vincent and Alfred went approximately buying new compositions. With its concentrate on the advance of a tune publishing enterprise, this examine brings a clean size to musicological study. Novello was once in a position to mix company perform with a dedication to disseminate song of academic and creative worth, and the historical past of the corporate offers illuminating proof of the commodification of tune in nineteenth-century Britain.

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